LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
The Capital Markets counsel was recognized for her work advising on record-setting IPOs in India. Asian Legal Business named Singapore counsel Esha Goel to its Singapore Rising Stars 2026 list. The annual list showcases the most promising next-generation lawyers in Singapore, recognized for their exceptional talent and potential. Esha brings a unique cross-border perspective to her
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Cooley announced it has been selected as an Official Legal Services Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA. As part of the partnership, Cooley will provide a full suite of legal services to LA28 over the next three years, supporting both corporate and litigation matters as the organization prepares to host
Article source: Nerdwallet.com Image Source: Pexels Companies have to stay alert to risks that could derail their plans and damage their reputations. As laws shift, cash flow challenges erupt, or hiring needs change, businesses must be prepared to pivot. While managing marketing plans and sales strategies can be central parts of a business risk management
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Article source: Wzyer Staffing Referrals built the legal industry, but they can no longer carry its growth alone. Firms that rely only on word of mouth are losing ground to competitors who use data to find clients before a referral even happens. Treating data as optional is now a costly mistake. This article explains why
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Article source: Awards.com The legal industry faces a quiet crisis of attrition. Law firm leaders frequently blame associate churn on money or long hours, but the root cause goes much deeper. Recent industry data from BCG shows that associate attrition nearly doubled to 16-17 percent, proving that traditional retention models are broken. When a firm
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Article source: Triumph Law Group, AZ Image: Magnific Cities across the U.S. are embracing Vision Zero, a bold commitment to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries through data-driven policies and street redesign. These initiatives certainly help reshape urban environments for the better, but they are also changing the legal landscape concerning pedestrian injury claims. For
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has recruited highly regarded financial services and regulatory lawyer Emma Rachmaninov from Freshfields, further expanding the firm’s London financial team. Rachmaninov will co-head its European financial services and funds regulatory team. Media release is here – Simpson Thacher has announced that Emma Rachmaninov will join the Firm’s European Funds Practice in
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Freshfields’ US growth ambitions has forced out equity partners across London, Paris and Germany, the Financial Times reported on 13 July, weeks after a pay overhaul left dozens of its roughly 500 partners holding fewer equity points.
Freshfields reset its internal exchange rate from $1.60 to the pound down to about $1.30, then handed extra points to its top US earners so their dollar pay held. Points are a share of a fixed pool and Freshfields’ European partners are the pool.
The Financial Times reported this week that Freshfields has culled equity partners in recent weeks, with its London headquarters and its Paris and German offices all seeing exits and equity downgrades.
City AM ran it as a shake-up to fund the American push, which it is. What neither write-up reached is the ledger entry that explains it, and that ledger entry has been sitting in public since March.
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Australia’s leading independent law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, has advised Vault Minerals Ltd (Vault) (ASX: VAU) on its proposed merger with Genesis Minerals Ltd (Genesis) (ASX: GMD) to create a top three Australian gold producer with a pro forma market capitalisation of approximately A$12.6 billion. The proposed transaction follows the previously announced A$10.7 billion ‘merger
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For three decades, law firm marketing has been built around being “known”: directories, awards, rankings, pitch documents and carefully honed websites. That world hasn’t disappeared but the way clients first meet your firm has. And a new UK report on law marketing in the age of AI has thrown an interesting light on what your firm needs to do to be recognized by AI.
First impressions of law firms is increasingly formed not by your homepage, but by an AI system summarising everything it can find about you into a single paragraph, before the prospective client has clicked a thing.
In that world, the question stops being “Does my page rank?” and becomes “When an AI assembles a view of my firm, is that view distinctive, credible and worth recommending?”.
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